Meme: Year End Writing Meme

[torra]

Okay, I ran across this on the ds_noticeboard, and I sorta dismissed it. It wasn't until I actualy stopped and thought back to just how much I've actualy written this year that I kinda went "...OMG, Woah. Did I do that??"

So after realizing that I've written more fic in the last year then I have in the last four years combined, I desided that this falls into

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[kimberlyfdr]

Do you feel that your involvement in SGA fandom is limiting (as in, do you feel that you can't get involved with the fandom as fully as you want to? why do you think that is?) I was just curious because it's been one of the most welcoming fandoms for me, so I wonder about different fans' experiences with that.

[torra]

It's not the fault of anyone but myself, I think, though I'm not sure what's wrong. Honestly, the same thing happend in dueSouth, which I still have a finger in, and was heavily involved in for more then eight years or so. But with DS there was one friend who got me into it, who after a time I just lost contact with, and I just never bonded with the other fans of DS after that. It's the same with SGA. I try to comment on stuff going on, but just feel left out, in the end.

All the fandoms I was a big part in, that I really felt like I was a big part in, I got there with my writing or by running a major forum/webpage. And when it's the writing, it's because I'm writing for my friends and other fans, stuff I want to say to make them happy/sad/laugh/whatever. In AoS I wrote for Selynne and people at The Haven forum and I ran a large Maeve/Sinbad website and Sel and I ran the HRADP, Angel I wrote for the girls of the Lost Angles forum, ST:Voy I ran a large Paris/Torres website and fic archive and wrote for a few of my friends

[kimberlyfdr]

Honestly, the same thing happend in dueSouth, which I still have a finger in, and was heavily involved in for more then eight years or so.

Due South is one of my fandoms, too :) I was an original fan, so I've been there a while. There's ALOT of SGA/DS crossover, too, because of the Canada thing.

All the fandoms I was a big part in, that I really felt like I was a big part in, I got there with my writing or by running a major forum/webpage.

Ahhh, okay. I understand that, but it shouldn't be limiting to that contribution level. I mean, fandom involvement of discussions or picspam or just networking. (I know you know that, though:)

I just don't have that for anyone in SGA. I don't even have any other McShep fan friends!

Well...you could :) I mean, there's tons of us around who are always willing to talk about McShep or the show or the actors or any of it. Maybe just LJ networking? Build up discussion exchanges with a few people, which would connect you to their friends and onward?

I also find it both amuseing and disheartening that

[torra]

Yah, honestly, I've been very pleasently suprised at how many DSers made it over. And even more suprised at how many people I know from my fandoms even before that! ::LOL:: Like seperis, who I knew way back in my ST:Voy days, or skyebanshee from as far back a AoS. I love seeing icons featuring bot DH and CKR. ::G::

And I know, like I said, my own fault, I just don't easily slip into unfermiler groups uninvited. Too used to running my own, I supose, and too used to being the school outcast before that. Even there, I lead the outcasts! ::LOL:: I was the Queen Geek, even back in grade school, so I used to gathering the outcasts around me, instead of me going to them. ::shrugs:: Old patterns and habits are hard to brake.

And I really do know I can talk to the "big names", god knows I remember when they were just as Newbie as I was! ::LOL:: One of the upsides to haveing been in Fandom as long as I have, I remember Speranza's first fics! ::LOL:: I really do just need to pick an opening and push my way in, I know. It's just...hard to start

[selynne]

Wow!! ::wild applause::

I don't even know where to start with this, since I'm probably the only person who's read EVERYTHING you listed here (aside from the SGA stuff) but I must say ... you rock!! I can't tell you how much I LOVE reading your stuff (well, wait, I probably have told you, multiple times) and you know that no thanks are necessary. You've done the same for me many times, and we make a damned good team if I do say so myself. And anyway, when we manage to share a fandom we have to wring as much joy as we possibly can out of the experience. *BG*

My favourite story of this year: Probably the RR with Sel, because it's so incredibly fun, and we have no real idea where it's going, but it's an incredible journy none the less.

Awww. ::hugs:: We really need to get back on that fic, don't we? I feel like I need to inject some real shippiness into it soon, though, maybe my next chapter. Just to throw a few bones.

One of my un-posted fics may end up a threesome love, or it may end up with no one happy at all, which since I never